It may look like a regular sweater, but these wool garments are designed to outlive the sheep they come from. Edzard van der Wyck is the man behind the sweaters. Available in only one style and five ...

Kayla Duvel is a reporter with Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program. Not all of Dave Martin’s sheep have names. He likes some more ...

The ultra-tough materials used in firefighting gear and bulletproof vests are very helpful for stopping flames or bullets, but those same properties make them difficult to recycle, so they usually end ...

Struggling to find the perfect ugly Christmas sweater? You're in luck. Team Ugly, based in Northwest Indiana, can fill your order. The 20-something friends started selling tacky knits from Miller's ...

This column all started when I ran across an article from Jan. 10, 1919 that explained that Binghamton firefighters had knit 1,019 pair of socks for United States soldiers. Knitting machines had been ...

Crooks & Castle has teamed up with the Canadian Sweater Company to create a sweater as part of their holiday collection. The 3 Castles Zip Sweater is hand knit with 5 gauge yarn. Utilizing techniques ...

In the past decade or so, the ugly Christmas sweater, in all its gaudy charm, has gone from a bad gift from Grandma to a hip, self-referential focus of holiday parties everywhere. A few years ago, ...